Paper Quilling Ideas and Patterns

Corrugated cardboard (which is often used for quilling nowadays) is easy for little children to work with. It's thick, 1 cm width and good for holding in kids' hands. It's often used at the craft lessons for preschoolers and elementary school children.

Let's learn making the main simple quilling elements.

1. «Tight spiral» — twist a strip and glue the tip.

2. «Free spiral» — twist a strip, let it untwist a bit and glue the tip.

3. «Drop» — twist «a free spiral», squeeze on one side so that it can have the shape of «a drop».

4. «Leaf» — twist «a free spiral», squeeze on both sides and bend the angles into different sides.

5. «Moon» — bend «a free spiral» like a crescent.

6. «Eye» — twist «a free spiral» and squeeze on both sides.

7. «Arrow» — twist «a free spiral», bend like a triangle and squeeze two angles to each other.

These simple kinds of quilling elements will help kids practise in twisting strips.

The given below quilling patterns are quite easy to make for toddlers and preschoolers.